Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Second Life and Real Life Converge, not once but twice!

Just a month ago, one my my Second Life and blogging friends came to Vancouver to stay with the OS and myself for a couple of days. LastDitch is from the UK and shipped his Ferrari across the Atlantic to tour the United States and visit all of the 48 lower states. 15,000 miles in just under two months! We'd met before in RL so he made a relatively short detour to Vancouver to catch up with me again.

We met another local blogging friend, Cascadian for lunch on the deck at Bridges at Granville Island, on a beautiful sunny day.

LastDitch on the left, Cascadian on the right

My lunch: halibut, asparagus etc

My dessert: a small Pavlova. Actually not so small!

Having a Ferrari in your driveway gives you cachet in the neighbourhood!

Setting off again for Washington

Yesterday the OS and I had dinner at The Teahouse in Stanley Park with one of my other long time Second Life friends, Dido, who is from The Netherlands and holidaying with her husband in Western Canada. It was a fun evening with good food, good wine, a great view and wonderful company.

I forgot to take my camera and was so busy talking I never thought to use my iPhone so you have to excuse me lifting images from Dido's blog. I hope you don't mind Dido.

The OS and Dido raise their glasses in a toast!

Dido's husband gets a top-up of his wine

The Cheese Plate: the only food photo. How unusual!
We started with stuffed mushrooms or salads, followed by Sockeye Salmon with scallops
While Dido's husband chose the cheese plate the rest of us indulged in decadent
desserts!

View from our table by the window at the Teahouse, as the sun
disappeared in the western sky

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Dido is the fourth Second Life person I have been fortunate to meet in Real Life, each one of them from a different country, which is one of the great pluses of that virtual world.

A fun evening and it was a great pleasure to meet someone whom I have considered a friend for a long time as well as her husband.